Homeless Program Index

The Warming Fire
University of Chicago Archives

Our index of "innovative" programs for the homeless remains a work
in
progress. Some would say under construction. We are short on both money and time
to properly contact homeless service providers for detailed information. Those
that
appear have graciously responded to electronic queries. We ask your help in
making
the Homeless Program Index a useful tool. If you are a service provider,
please
consider using the response form below to describe your
facility
or service. There is no charge for this listing or for updates as
necessary.
If you are a client or a former client and would like to add information to this
index, please use the form or a brief e-mail to davidson@u.arizona.edu,
using the word index in the subject field of the message
header.

If your browser software is not capable of displaying frames (as in the case
of
Lynx), you already will have been diverted to a text-only version of the
Homeless
Program Index. However, you have the option of choosing simple text from the
static table of contents displayed in the left frame. This may be useful in
sending
material to a printer in certain circumstances.

Add Listing

The following form has been designed for your convenience. You may wish
to print
out a copy of the blank form for use while composing your answers. Once
the draft
is ready to go, enter your responses in the appropriate areas below.
Please allow
several working days for your entry to appear in the index.

Linking to Us

We'd appreciate linking your page or site to Homeless Program Index
and
are most willing to return the courtesy. We've designed a modest one-inch gold
bar
for visibility. It's available in two versions. For maximum resolution, use the
.jpeg
version; for economy of space, get the .gif version. And if you have no space at
all for such things, there's a couple of lines of HTML code you can use to have
our
host server display it for you (either version).

hpilink.jpeg (8,879 bytes)

hpilink.gif(2,800 bytes)

To download either of these files, Windows '95 and NT users need merely point
to the image and click the right mouse button for a menu; Macintosh users
with OS 8 will get a contextual menu with control-click; with System 7, by using
some other procedure, depending on the browser.

Once you have the image of choice, code to implement it goes something like
this...

This example assumes the image file is in the same directory as the page
component
that is calling it. If you keep images in a different directory, you'll need a
path
to it as well as the filename. And, if you use the .gif version, be sure to
substitute
.gif for .jpeg (or .jpg) in the example. The end result is that the entire icon
is
clickable, providing a link to us.

The preferred way to go is to have one of these files on your Web page's
server
because it's faster. Nevertheless, if you want to avoid messing with foreign
images,
all you need do is to substitute the complete URL for one of these files
in
place of the simple filename in our example...

<IMG
SRC="http://members.tripod.com/~bmdavidson/hpilink.gif"

As soon as you've installed this, send a brief
e-mail advising of your URL and the focus of your page so we might return
the
courtesy. Thanks!

Credits

The brightly colored bullets used to highlight certain items were graciously
provided
by the Electronic Information Resources staff of Jackson Library at the
University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. These and many other icon
files are available for download.

Writing HTML code from scratch can consume a lot of time. This particular
page
went together in much less time with the help of Symantic's Visual Page.
A
trial copy (fully functional for thirty days) is available for Windows '95,
Windows
NT, and Macintosh OS from Symantic's Web
site.